{"query": "Easton: Temptation", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fdc6df218f54", "title": "Easton: Temptation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their fa"}, {"id": "card_n_361dc3c83c89", "title": "Easton: Serpent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nahash; Gr. ophis), frequently noticed in Scripture. More than forty species are found in Syria and Arabia. The poisonous character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob’s blessing on Dan (Gen. "}, {"id": "card_c_5fc63b995aba", "title": "Easton: Temptation references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_f754249e13b8", "title": "Easton: Massah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trial, temptation, a name given to the place where the Israelites, by their murmuring for want of water, provoked Jehovah to anger against them. It is also called Meribah (Ex. 17:7; Deut. 6:16; Ps. 95"}, {"id": "card_c_3e8a7ab3bf70", "title": "Easton: Temptation cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 22:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2258e3ead558", "title": "Easton: Temptation cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 1:2; James 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_ecb36ea9b157", "title": "Easton: Temptation references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_a544bde69191", "title": "Easton: Temptation references Hezekiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hezekiah (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_0927feac7e21", "title": "Easton: Temptation references Jericho", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jericho (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_32653bd55ffa", "title": "Easton: Temptation references Jordan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jordan (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_74d12d41f383", "title": "Easton: Offence", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An injury or wrong done to one (1 Sam. 25:31; Rom. 5:15). (2.) A stumbling-block or cause of temptation (Isa. 8:14; Matt. 16:23; 18:7). Greek skandalon, properly that at which one stumbles or tak"}, {"id": "card_n_5978b4e4984f", "title": "Easton: Daemoniac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One “possessed with a devil.” In the days of our Lord and his apostles, evil spirits, “daemons,” were mysteriously permitted by God to exercise an influence both over the souls and bodies of men, infl"}, {"id": "card_n_e3713c4d742c", "title": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage. (1.) Roman Catholic writers think that it denotes suggestions to impiety. (2.) Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers interpret the"}, {"id": "card_n_e26790741c38", "title": "Easton: Fall of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they and all their poste"}, {"id": "card_n_3c0550712d94", "title": "Easton: Eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by cre"}]}